Key Accounts Manager Professional Trade
Signify.com
Office
Woodmead, South Africa
Full Time
Job Title
Key Accounts Manager Professional TradeJob Description
About Signify
Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.
At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.
Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world. You light the way.
More about the role
- Manage the overall regional business to achieve maximum sales, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
- Add new Distribution Channels and develop strong relationships with key distributor partners in the region, acting as the primary interface and voice of the customer to internal teams in operations, finance, and product marketing.
- Develop, implement, track, and report on regional sales growth plans and target account opportunities.
- Provide overall management expertise for key accounts with focus on product mix, new product introductions, and opportunities to grow market share.
- Provide the business with forecasts and opportunity pipelines on an ongoing basis via the SFDC CRM tool.
- Achieve regional sales targets by growing the current customer mix i.e. expand to tier 2's through new business development and positioning new products.
- Participate in both high-level and local strategy-setting to help achieve these targets.
- Communicate market trends, competitive info, new opportunities to internal stakeholders.
More About You
- Strong relationship-development skills resulting in long-term, mutually beneficial customer relationships.
- Proven success in effectively managing directly and through influence by prioritizing tasks for both self and team to meet business requirements and deadlines.
- Ability to work with functional groups and different levels of employees throughout the Signify [Philips] Lighting organization to achieve business results effectively and professionally.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively to all levels.
- Strong organizational skills: Ability to accomplish multiple tasks within agreed-upon timeframes through effective prioritization of duties in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong track record of building and maintaining solid relationships with both internal and external customers, from sales employees to C-level executives.
- Self-motivated; able to work both independently to complete tasks as well as respond to upper management requests in a timely manner.
- Strong financial analysis and budgeting skills
Qualifications
- Technical qualification plus minimum 8 years of experience in a sales channel utilizing distributor partners.
- Position incumbent averages 10-15 years of sales experience.
- Advantageous; the applicant would have a lighting industry background
Everything we’ll do for you
List out benefits and anything else on offer for this role.
You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 30,000+ people.
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce representing 99 nationalities, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together.
Key Accounts Manager Professional Trade
Office
Woodmead, South Africa
Full Time
September 22, 2025